Doctors Without Borders office in Yangon becomes makeshift clinic amid Myanmar's collapsing health system
The violence and intimidation committed by security forces in Myanmar is creating a climate of fear and disrupting HIV patients' access to life-saving...
War and conflict
HIV/AIDS
Palestine
Gaza: “Night and day, what we are living through is terrifying”
The fighting between the Israeli military and Palestinian armed groups, principally Hamas, broke out once again after weeks of tensions in occupied Ea...
War and conflict
Madagascar
Famine crisis looms in southern Madagascar
An immediate and massive increase in food aid is urgently needed for people in southern Madagascar, says international medical organisation Doctors Wi...
Malnutrition
Famine
Palestine
Doctors Without Borders treats hundreds of Palestinians injured by Israeli police in Jerusalem
On Monday 10 May, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started supporting the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Jerusalem t...
War and conflict
Mozambique
Opinion: Focus on fighting ‘terrorists’ ignores real humanitarian needs in Cabo Delgado
Since October 2017, the northern province of Mozambique, Cabo Delgado (CD) has been suffering violent attacks from a Non-State Armed Group. Over 2020,...
War and conflict
Afghanistan
One year after the attack on Dasht-e-Barchi maternity
On 12 May 2020, the maternity ward of the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, was attacked. Twenty-four people were killed, according to of...
War and conflict
India
India: "The staff we have aren’t enough"
The situation in India and in Mumbai is very bad. It’s critical across the country. We’re providing medical support to one of the COVID treatment cent...
COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
India
"Mumbai is still seeing more than 3,000 new cases of COVID every day"
Doctors Without Borders is working in M-East Ward in Mumbai, one of the densely populated administrative division having 70% of its population living ...
COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
India
India: "My biggest concerns are the knock-on effects of COVID on other aspects of healthcare."
I am the Project Medical Referent working in Doctors Without Borders drug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV project in the M-East Ward, one of the TB hig...
